Creating a connection

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Creating a connection

The following methods are used to insert a database connection and return the handle of the newly inserted connection. If not successful, a null value is returned:

insert(boolean bUseJDBCODBCBridge, String name, String desc, String url, String driver)
insert(boolean bUseJDBCODBCBridge, String name, String desc, String url, String driver, ConnectionInfo info)
insert(String dataSourceName, boolean bUseJDBCODBCBridge, String name, String desc, String url, String driver)
insert(String dataSourceName, boolean bUseJDBCODBCBridge, String name, String desc, String url, String driver, ConnectionInfo info)

Parameters

UseJDBCODBCBridge - Indicates to connect to the database with a JDBC-ODBC Bridge.
name - The name of the connection.
desc - The description for the connection.
url - The URL used to connect to the database.
driver - The database driver.
info - The connection information.

Note: The class ConnectionInfo is used to create the connection information. For details, refer to the JReport Javadoc jet.api package in <install_root>\help\api, which includes all documents generated by Javadoc.